Op-Eds & Articles

​Although the Palestinian authorities followed a set of global standards and procedures to tackle the pandemic, they had to manoeuvre within severe constraints: weak health infrastructure, a fragile financial situation for the Palestinian Authority (PA), and the political ramifications of the Israeli military occupation – particularly the imminent threat of annexation of major parts of the West Bank. The COVID-19 response yielded a strengthening in the perceived legitimacy and popularity of the Palestinian government, but this is very likely to be short-lived.

One hundred years ago, on July 1, 1920, the British army established a civil administration in Palestine. Over the course of the next 25 years, the British Mandate for Palestine would set the stage for a process of colonization that has continued until today.

Last February, a joint US-Israeli committee began working to implement President Donald Trump's "Vision for Peace." The committee included the US Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, and his Israeli counterpart, Ron Dermer. Among its tasks was to delineate lands in the occupied West Bank for annexation by Israel. The committee's work and membership demonstrated the deep partnership…

There is nothing that an annexation bill can tell us that decades of Israeli laws and policies haven’t already.

The next fault line in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict comes from an unassuming corner, the banking system.

The Green Line disguises the fact that Palestinians in Gaza are no longer being oppressed outside the Israeli state, but are being caged and brutalized inside it.

Seventy-two years after the Nakba, Israel and the United States continue to deny the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes, writes Dalal Yassine.